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Illegal immigrants with HIV/AIDS being held by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are not receiving proper care and treatment, according to a new survey from Human Rights Watch. The report had not been fully reviewed by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, but a spokeswoman stood by the quality of care given to detainees.

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Same-sex couples who marry in Massachusetts, the only state to permit such unions, are not eligible to divorce in Rhode Island, according to a split decision by the state's high court. The Legislature, not the judicial branch, should decide whether equal marriage rights and corresponding divorces should be considered legal in the state, the court found.

Washington state activists in 2008 hope to expand on this year's limited domestic-partnership law -- which gave same-sex couples hospital-visitation and inheritance rights -- by passing legislation granting partner-property, retirement and pension-benefit rights. Equal marriage rights, however, probably is not on the agenda until after the 2008 elections, according to this article.

The federal hate-crimes bill is in limbo once again after House leaders pulled back from their plan to attach the measure to a defense authorization bill. That the plan is off, due to the reluctance of liberals to vote for the defense-spending measure and of conservatives to support the hate-crimes legislation, is yet another disappointment from the current leadership, according to this New York Times editorial. "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has to do more than just express her support for the bill; she must find a way to make it the law," the Times writes.

Republican White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani continues to try to walk a fine line between his past pro-gay record as mayor of New York and his current need to reassure the religious right of his conservative credentials, according to writer Steve Kornacki. "My moral views on this come from the Catholic Church," Giuliani said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I believe that homosexuality, heterosexuality, as a way [that] somebody leads their life isn't sinful. It's the acts -- it's the various acts that people perform that are sinful, not the orientation that they have."

The California Senate and governor should work to approve a measure that would promote routine, voluntary HIV/AIDS testing, state Assembly member Patty Berg, California Medical Association president Anmol S. Mahal and AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein write in this commentary. The testing would allow for early diagnosis and treatment, which could prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and reduce the number of AIDS-related deaths, they write.